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B.A., Eastern Illinois University M.A., University at Albany J.D., University of Houston Law Center

Connie Mayer is the Raymond and Ella Smith Distinguished Professor of Law and a Clinical Professor of Law. Professor Mayer practiced law with East Texas Legal Services and subsequently worked in a private criminal and civil law practice prior to joining the faculty at Albany Law School. She joined the law faculty in 1986 as the Director of the Disabilities Law Clinic and continued in that capacity until 1992. In 1992, Professor Mayer became the Director of the Albany Law School Clinical Program and expanded the clinic, adding the AIDS/HIV Law Clinic which she directed from 1992-1996, the Domestic Violence Clinic, and the Low Income Taxpayer Clinic. She continued as the Director of the Clinical Legal Studies Program through 2001 while also serving as the Associate Dean for Student Affairs from 1999 through 2005. In 2005, she became the Associate Dean for Academic Affairs.

Professor Mayer has taught various courses including the Disabilities Law Seminar, the AIDS/HIV Law Seminar, Negotiating for Lawyers, Trial Practice I, Trial Practice II and she currently teaches Federal Civil Procedure and Legal Ethics. She serves on the New York State Bar Association Committee on Legal Education & Admission to the Bar. Professor Mayer was the 2011 Recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award. She has published in the areas of disability law and criminal justice issues. Works in progress include an article using empirical data to analyze the impact of non-academic variables on bar passage.​

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Addressing the Unique Mental Health Needs of Female Inmates with HIV: What Services are Required under the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act?, 6 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 215 (1999)

HIV as a Disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act: Unanswered Questions after Bragdon v. Abbott, 14 Journal of Law and Health 179 (1999-2000)hiv_as_a_disability_992000.pdf

Addressing the Unique Mental Health Needs of Female Inmates with HIV: What Services are Required under the Constitution and the Americans with Disabilities Act?, 6 William & Mary Journal of Women and the Law 215 (1999)

Estimating the Determinants of Discrimination in Criminal Sentencing as an Outcome of Prior Felony Convictions, The American Society of Criminology, 38th Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia (October 1986)

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​Connie Mayer was named Interim Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at Albany Law School.

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Connie Mayer, the interim president and dean at Albany Law School,
said the changes were "great" and that a law clinic environment was like
an "apprenticeship" where prospective lawyers could learn practical
skills they will need later in their professional lives.

She said she would have gone further and made a clinical or internship course mandatory.

"My view is there should be some requirement that a law student
should meet with an actual client," she said. "I don't know how you
graduate from law school and never actually see a potential client."​​